User's Manual

Infrastructure Requirements and Layout Planning
Voasis™ UMTS/DCS/PCS Installation and Configuration Manual 7
3 Infrastructure Requirements and Layout
Planning
3.1 General information on Location and Connections
• The Service provider’s RF equipment (Pico-cell, Femto-cell, BDA, etc.) is connected to the VCU
through a passive interface.
• The VCU is installed at the IDF/telco cabinet of the covered floor and connected to the cabling
patch panel.
• The RF signal is overlaid from the VCU to the VAPs (up to 12) onto the existing (
but not in
use
) Ethernet CAT-5/6 cabling infrastructure.
• The VAPs are spread over the floor for maximum coverage and can be mounted in various
ways – directly on the wall or on the desktop (or over the existing RJ-45 jack).
• No special power connections are required as the VAPs are power fed from the VCU using PoE
(power over Ethernet) technology.
Figure
3-1. Voasis™ Basic Architecture